Re: USB flash with varying VendorID:ProductId

2024-10-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Max Mikulin wrote: > Oct 09 09:02:25 hp kernel: usb 3-3: new high-speed USB device number 7 using > xhci_hcd > Oct 09 09:02:25 hp kernel: usb 3-3: New USB device found, idVendor=8564, > idProduct=1000, bcdDevice=11.00 > ... > Oct 09 09:02:25 hp kernel: scsi host4: usb-storage 3-3:1.0 > Oct 0

Re: USB flash with varying VendorID:ProductId

2024-10-21 Thread Max Nikulin
My attempt to determine efidisk read speed failed. Grub's md5sum command fails on this laptop (both USB2 and USB3) on 1G files error: out of memory On the old laptop it works with USB2 speed of this flash drive.

Re: USB flash with varying VendorID:ProductId

2024-10-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Max Nikulin wrote: > Just booting grub from internal drive in the case of a USB3 port does not > cause switch from Transcend to SMI for Linux kernel. Can you provoke the transition while this Linux kernel is running ? If so: what does the kernel log say about that point in time ? > I am cur

Re: USB flash with varying VendorID:ProductId

2024-10-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 20/10/2024 00:02, Stefan Monnier wrote: |__ Port 2: Dev 5, If 0, Class=Mass Storage, Driver=usb-storage, 5000M ID 8564:1000 Transcend Information, Inc. JetFlash [...] |__ Port 3: Dev 8, If 0, Class=Mass Storage, Driver=usb-storage, 480M ID 090c:3265 Silicon Motion

Re: USB flash with varying VendorID:ProductId

2024-10-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
d are told by the USB device's firmware to the operating system. Somewhat undisciplined usage of the Id 8564:1000 can be seen at: https://flashboot.ru/iflash/page45/ FLASH FLASH VID PID CHIPCHIP MEMORY SIZE VENDOR MODEL

Re: USB flash with varying VendorID:ProductId

2024-10-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
> lsusb -vt > /: Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/2p, 1M > ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub > |__ Port 2: Dev 5, If 0, Class=Mass Storage, Driver=usb-storage, 5000M > ID 8564:1000 Transcend Information, Inc. JetFlash > > however it may accidentall

USB flash with varying VendorID:ProductId

2024-10-19 Thread Max Nikulin
Hi, I have decided that it is time to buy a USB3 stick for live system (rescue) that boots fast enough. To my surprise I can boot kernel and initrd, but not live system. Kernel identifies the USB stick as another product and does not recognize the existing partition from which the kernel is l

Re: Copying installer ISO to USB Flash

2024-09-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/20/2024 12:56 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 20/9/24 22:52, Richard Owlett wrote: Having machines with different constraints I have downloaded DVD1 and Netinst ISO's. I have flash drives with obsolete ISO's. For reference I have [ https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb ]

Re: Copying installer ISO to USB Flash

2024-09-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/20/2024 10:56 AM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 20 Sep 2024 at 09:52:32 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: Having machines with different constraints I have downloaded DVD1 and Netinst ISO's. I have flash drives with obsolete ISO's. For reference I have [ https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/

Re: Copying installer ISO to USB Flash

2024-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 9/20/24 07:52, Richard Owlett wrote: Having machines with different constraints I have downloaded DVD1 and Netinst ISO's. I have flash drives with obsolete ISO's. For reference I have [ https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb ] available. Questions: 1. Do the flash drives requir

Re: Copying installer ISO to USB Flash

2024-09-20 Thread Joe
On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:52:32 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > Having machines with different constraints I have downloaded DVD1 and > Netinst ISO's. I have flash drives with obsolete ISO's. For reference > I have [ https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb ] available. > &g

Re: Copying installer ISO to USB Flash

2024-09-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/9/24 22:52, Richard Owlett wrote: Having machines with different constraints I have downloaded DVD1 and Netinst ISO's. I have flash drives with obsolete ISO's. For reference I have [ https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb ] available. Questions: 1. Do the flash drives requir

Re: Copying installer ISO to USB Flash

2024-09-20 Thread David Wright
On Fri 20 Sep 2024 at 09:52:32 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > Having machines with different constraints I have downloaded DVD1 and > Netinst ISO's. I have flash drives with obsolete ISO's. For reference > I have [ https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb ] available. > &g

Copying installer ISO to USB Flash

2024-09-20 Thread Richard Owlett
Having machines with different constraints I have downloaded DVD1 and Netinst ISO's. I have flash drives with obsolete ISO's. For reference I have [ https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb ] available. Questions: 1. Do the flash drives require any prep? [ Gparted gives warning m

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-06 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 09:53:41AM -0400, Lee wrote: > My question is: how do I reformat the flash drive so it's usable as a > "normal" flash drive again? Nowadays, people rarely "format" (*) their "drives". They create filesystems on raw devices.

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-02 Thread Lee
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 5:27 AM jeremy ardley wrote: > > > On 2/7/24 16:24, Lee wrote: > > And if I don't want to leave Internet footprints - or if I just want > to give the finger to whoever is watching, I'll use the tor browser. > > > That is probably the worst thing you can do. On my last check *

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-02 Thread John Hasler
George at Clug writes: > While collecting information about individuals and selling their data > is common practice these days It's common practice because people won't pay for services but will tolerate advertising. > Of course, by the mere fact of visiting a web site (for example, that > has Go

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-02 Thread jeremy ardley
On 2/7/24 16:24, Lee wrote: And if I don't want to leave Internet footprints - or if I just want to give the finger to whoever is watching, I'll use the tor browser. That is probably the worst thing you can do. On my last check *most* Tor exit points are operated by intelligence or police ag

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-02 Thread jeremy ardley
On 2/7/24 12:47, George at Clug wrote: Scott McNally’s quip that ‘you have no privacy, get over it’ is sadly true, but I don't think he meant that we have to resign ourselves to this fast, we can but do what we can to reduce the data collected, even while realising our efforts are mostly in

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-02 Thread Lee
On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 6:13 PM jeremy ardley wrote: > > > On 1/7/24 21:05, Lee wrote: > >> Visual Studio Code allows you to edit HTML and preview it using Live > >> Server plugin > >> > >> https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ritwickdey.LiveServer > > Thanks, but no thanks. That see

Telemetry, data hoarding [was: how2 format a flash drive]

2024-07-02 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jul 02, 2024 at 04:09:39AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 3:53 AM George at Clug wrote: > > > > Is telemetry evil? Are guns evil? Philosophical questions? > > > > I find it objectionable when people gather "telemetry" about "me" and not > > just the causes of the

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 3:53 AM George at Clug wrote: > > Is telemetry evil? Are guns evil? Philosophical questions? > > I find it objectionable when people gather "telemetry" about "me" and not > just the causes of the "blue screens of death". > > I find it objectionable when people gather pers

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread George at Clug
Is telemetry evil?  Are guns evil?  Philosophical questions? I find it objectionable when people gather "telemetry" about "me" and not just the causes of the "blue screens of death". I find it objectionable when people gather personal "telemetry" and then on sell that information to others for

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 11:40:56PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > In the more general case, telemetry is not in itself > > considered 'evil'. > > I consider it evil if it's opt-out rather than opt-in. Absolutely. Plus (a) I don't trust most vendors to be telling the truth whenever their bottom

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread gene heskett
On 7/1/24 23:41, Stefan Monnier wrote: In the more general case, telemetry is not in itself considered 'evil'. I consider it evil if it's opt-out rather than opt-in. Stefan I think that highly depends on what that telemetry is sending. Crash reports, yes, contents of a list of phon

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> In the more general case, telemetry is not in itself > considered 'evil'. I consider it evil if it's opt-out rather than opt-in. Stefan

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread jeremy ardley
On 1/7/24 21:05, Lee wrote: Visual Studio Code allows you to edit HTML and preview it using Live Server plugin https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ritwickdey.LiveServer Thanks, but no thanks. That seems to include the Microsoft spyware licensing: https://code.visualstudio.co

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 09:05:51AM -0400, Lee wrote: > On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 4:53 AM jeremy ardley wrote: [...] > > https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ritwickdey.LiveServer > > Thanks, but no thanks. That seems to include the Microsoft spyware > licensing: https://code.visua

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-01 Thread Lee
On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 4:53 AM jeremy ardley wrote: > > > On 1/7/24 10:32, Lee wrote: > > Bluefish looks like a possible replacement for notepad++ but it > > doesn't [seem to?] support WYSIWYG editing of html files. > > > Visual Studio Code allows you to edit HTML and preview it using Live > Serv

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 4:13 PM Lee wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 7:26 PM George wrote: > > [...] > > If you have any grips or difficulties, please mention them. > > My gripes and difficulties are the same thing. [...] > something equivalent to notepad++, You might give Notepadqq a spin. I'v

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-30 Thread jeremy ardley
On 1/7/24 10:32, Lee wrote: Bluefish looks like a possible replacement for notepad++ but it doesn't [seem to?] support WYSIWYG editing of html files. Visual Studio Code allows you to edit HTML and preview it using Live Server plugin https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rit

Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection (was: how2 format a flash drive)

2024-06-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 9:46 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 9:35 PM Lee wrote: > >[...] > > ... which is the downside of free software. Technically, yes, I'm > > free to build the software with whatever I want enabled, with whatever > > changes I want added/deleted. > > I

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-30 Thread Lee
Hi, On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 1:12 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > Lee wrote: > > My gripes and difficulties are the same thing. No universal image > > viewer like Ifranview, > > `apt search image viewer` suggests: eog, eom, ephoto, photoqt.. > among dozens of others. But start with one of those. Thanks

Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection (was: how2 format a flash drive)

2024-06-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 9:35 PM Lee wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 4:45 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 4:13 PM Lee wrote: > > > > > > [...] Debian firefox does NOT allow one to do > > > TLS intercept - ie. this does not work: > > > C:\UTIL>cat firefox-tlsdecode.bat >

Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection (was: how2 format a flash drive)

2024-06-30 Thread Lee
Hi, On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 4:45 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 4:13 PM Lee wrote: > > > > [...] Debian firefox does NOT allow one to do > > TLS intercept - ie. this does not work: > > C:\UTIL>cat firefox-tlsdecode.bat > > set SSLKEYLOGFILE=C:\Users\Lee\AppData\Local\Temp\FF-

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-29 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 30/6/24 06:43, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-06-29 17:46, Lee wrote: My gripes and difficulties are the same thing.  No universal image viewer like Ifranview, geeqie is quick, something equivalent to notepad++, Geany +5 for geany -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com kei

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-29 Thread George at Clug
t; > > > Lee wrote: > > > > > > > > > My old laptop died; I just got a new one and it has _no_ optical > > > > > drive.  But the Debian install from flash instructions were excellent > > > > > & I now have a laptop running Debian.

Browser traffic interception/inspection (was: how2 format a flash drive)

2024-06-29 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 4:13 PM Lee wrote: > > [...] Debian firefox does NOT allow one to do > TLS intercept - ie. this does not work: > C:\UTIL>cat firefox-tlsdecode.bat > set SSLKEYLOGFILE=C:\Users\Lee\AppData\Local\Temp\FF-SSLkeys.txt > start C:\"Program Files\Firefox\Firefox.exe" > > @rem wire

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-29 17:46, Lee wrote: My gripes and difficulties are the same thing. No universal image viewer like Ifranview, geeqie is quick, something equivalent to notepad++, Geany

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Lee wrote: > My gripes and difficulties are the same thing. No universal image > viewer like Ifranview, `apt search image viewer` suggests: eog, eom, ephoto, photoqt.. among dozens of others. But start with one of those. > an html editor would be nice -- something along > the lines of the sea

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-29 Thread Lee
ld laptop died; I just got a new one and it has _no_ optical > > > > drive. But the Debian install from flash instructions were excellent > > > > & I now have a laptop running Debian. > > > > > > > > My question is: how do I reformat the flash drive so i

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-27 Thread sd
On Wednesday, 26 June 2024 00:26:00 BST George at Clug wrote: > On Wednesday, 26-06-2024 at 05:43 Lee wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 11:47 AM Joe wrote: > > > On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:53:41 -0400 [snip] > If you have any grips or difficulties, please mention them. After five years > of using XF

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread Lee
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 12:48 PM Hans wrote: > > You can easily refotrmat it, either using fdisk or if you want a GUI, use > gparted. I just learned about fdisk today -- thank you! Lee

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread George at Clug
On Wednesday, 26-06-2024 at 05:43 Lee wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 11:47 AM Joe wrote: > > > > On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:53:41 -0400 > > Lee wrote: > > > > > My old laptop died; I just got a new one and it has _no_ optical > > > drive. But th

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread David Wright
Entire attribution and quote removed to avoid the mailing list treating this post as spam. I got the impression that Lee used windows in the past (and may still), which is why I didn't suggest the same as Joe. (Lee did write "on Debian"). And by devices, I was thinking more of TVs, printers, scan

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread eben
On 6/25/24 15:43, Lee wrote: Whoever came up with scroll bars that play hide & seek should be tarred & feathered. Agree. Most programs that do that crap can be convinced not to. Same with Thunderbird putting the menu bar below that next bit, whatever you call it. Search the net for | scrollba

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread Lee
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 11:47 AM Joe wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:53:41 -0400 > Lee wrote: > > > My old laptop died; I just got a new one and it has _no_ optical > > drive. But the Debian install from flash instructions were excellent > > & I now have a

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread Lee
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 1:28 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, Hi, I don't know what happened, but your msg _finaly_ showed up in my inbox. Strange how it was delayed for so long.. > Lee wrote: > > My question is: how do I reformat the flash drive so it's usable as a

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread eben
On 6/25/24 10:39, David Wright wrote: Of course, we're not told what "normal" means, what was tried, nor how normality was tested. It's possible that they need to use, say, mkdosfs to get back to the state in which USB sticks are typically bought, so it can be plugged into other devices. I kee

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread Hans
You can easily refotrmat it, either using fdisk or if you want a GUI, use gparted. With fdisk (also you can use cfdisk) I suggest first to delete all partitions, then create new one. Then choose your type (it is 0b for FAT32). Write to disk and quit fdisk. Then format the new partition, for v

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > $ sudo mount offset=2291712 /mnt/fat For the archives, this would of course have to be $ sudo mount offset=2291712 debian-12.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso /mnt/fat The number 2291712 was computed from the partition start block 4476 multiplied by the block size 512. Have a nice day :)

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Wright wrote: > Of course, we're not told what "normal" means, I guess it's a single partition with FAT. Around 2010 i got three USB sticks and kept their compressed original content. For examination of their MBR partition tables it is enough to cut off their heads: $ gunzip what wa

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread Joe
On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:53:41 -0400 Lee wrote: > My old laptop died; I just got a new one and it has _no_ optical > drive. But the Debian install from flash instructions were excellent > & I now have a laptop running Debian. > > My question is: how do I reformat the flash d

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread David Wright
On Tue 25 Jun 2024 at 16:23:16 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Lee wrote: > > My question is: how do I reformat the flash drive so it's usable as a > > "normal" flash drive again? > > You have to delete the partitions of the USB stick which came with >

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Lee wrote: > My question is: how do I reformat the flash drive so it's usable as a > "normal" flash drive again? You have to delete the partitions of the USB stick which came with the ISO. Then you create one or more partitions. Then you format them to a writable fi

how2 format a flash drive

2024-06-25 Thread Lee
My old laptop died; I just got a new one and it has _no_ optical drive. But the Debian install from flash instructions were excellent & I now have a laptop running Debian. My question is: how do I reformat the flash drive so it's usable as a "normal" flash drive again? Not

Re: apt-cdrom: How do I use the flash drive as a CD-ROM to install software in Debian 12?

2023-06-16 Thread David Wright
d is therefore > disabled by default. > N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration > details. > > I have read the manpages of both 'apt-cdrom' and 'apt-secure' and they only > contain lists and descriptions of options and parame

apt-cdrom: How do I use the flash drive as a CD-ROM to install software in Debian 12?

2023-06-15 Thread Totoro
Hi I "burned" the file called debian-12.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso to a USB flash drive and installed Debian 12 with it without an internet connection. I chose the bare minimal install, without any desktop environment. Upon successful installation, my desktop computer rebooted to a consol

Re: hard disk and sub flash disk issues

2022-12-09 Thread David Wright
I installed debian and ubuntu on various usb flash disks of size 64 gb > or 32 gb or even I think 16 gb not live systems but either full > installations or some persistence. Some of them broke down meaning they > wont boot or run a full system they may drop to busybox or simply refuse

Re: hard disk and sub flash disk issues

2022-12-08 Thread Christoph Brinkhaus
Am Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 04:38:55PM +0300 schrieb Semih Ozlem: Hello Semith, I have deleted (i), (ii) and (iv) because I can not contribute to that questions. Please tell me if this is not ok in this mailing list. > (iii) I have an external hard drive seagate that appears in lsusb command > but t

Re: hard disk and sub flash disk issues

2022-12-08 Thread David Christensen
tu on various usb flash disks of size 64 gb or 32 gb or even I think 16 gb not live systems but either full installations or some persistence. Some of them broke down meaning they wont boot or run a full system they may drop to busybox or simply refuse to start at all. Some of those filesystems are

Re: hard disk and sub flash disk issues

2022-12-08 Thread Max Nikulin
On 08/12/2022 20:38, Semih Ozlem wrote: (i) I accidentally turned one of the partitions on the hard disk of the machine I currently have to linux swap. That partition contained files that I may need to review or use later. Is there a way to recove those files and if so how A chance is rathe

hard disk and sub flash disk issues

2022-12-08 Thread Semih Ozlem
. Is there a way to recove those files and if so how (ii) I installed debian and ubuntu on various usb flash disks of size 64 gb or 32 gb or even I think 16 gb not live systems but either full installations or some persistence. Some of them broke down meaning they wont boot or run a full system they

Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive

2022-03-06 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/06/2022 06:44 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/06/2022 05:43 AM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Currently I use dd if=netinst.iso bs=64M of=/dev/sdb I would like way to copy it such that: 1. a legacy BIOS could launch it 2. Gparted would not complain about block size 3. there wou

Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive

2022-03-06 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/06/2022 10:25 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: [ *SNIP* ] I guess that gparted's confusion is because of the nested partitions. Another cause could be the GPT and APM debris. (It is the main job of make_isombr_part to remove this.) In order to check the theory about nested partitions you could de

Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive

2022-03-06 Thread songbird
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, :) ... > songbird wrote: >> one of the nice people here posted a program for doing this >> called make_isombr_part (or something similar). > > That was me. > > Presentation of first version: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg01215.html > > Richard

Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive

2022-03-06 Thread songbird
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > songbird wrote: ... >> i have two versions of it now, but it was a five years ago and >> i don't recall if i made the changes or got a new version from >> the author. :) > > Your request for a dry-run mode was fulfilled by a new version: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-

Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive

2022-03-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > The error message block is titled > > It is not possible to create more than 1 primary partition There should still 2 MBR partition table slots free. Both could become primary partitions, although a provident partition editor could force you to use the last partition a

Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive

2022-03-06 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/06/2022 07:09 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: Currently I use dd if=netinst.iso bs=64M of=/dev/sdb I would like way to copy it such that: 1. a legacy BIOS could launch it This should work fine after above dd run. I does. 2. Gparted would not complain about b

Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive

2022-03-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, as usual, a little mistake: I worte: > That's the version which is still available as > http://scdbackup.webframe.org/make_isombr_part.c > MD5 dd3e1a16e9593f908a1ce9ec848fd929 That is the MD5 of the amd64 executable binary. The MD5 of the source file is 34aa900801f65955a61cebf0280eeb3b .

Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive

2022-03-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Currently I use > > > dd if=netinst.iso bs=64M of=/dev/sdb > > I would like way to copy it such that: > > 1. a legacy BIOS could launch it This should work fine after above dd run. > > 2. Gparted would not complain about block size Usually the partition editors co

Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive

2022-03-06 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/06/2022 05:43 AM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Currently I use dd if=netinst.iso bs=64M of=/dev/sdb I would like way to copy it such that: 1. a legacy BIOS could launch it 2. Gparted would not complain about block size 3. there would be at least two partitions usable misc files

Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive

2022-03-06 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: > Currently I use >> dd if=netinst.iso bs=64M of=/dev/sdb > > I would like way to copy it such that: > 1. a legacy BIOS could launch it > 2. Gparted would not complain about block size > 3. there would be at least two partitions usable misc files one of the nice people her

Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive

2022-03-06 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/06/2022 04:52 AM, Joe wrote: On Sun, 6 Mar 2022 04:06:23 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: Currently I use dd if=netinst.iso bs=64M of=/dev/sdb I would like way to copy it such that: 1. a legacy BIOS could launch it 2. Gparted would not complain about block size 3. there would be at least t

Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive

2022-03-06 Thread Joe
On Sun, 6 Mar 2022 04:06:23 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > Currently I use > > dd if=netinst.iso bs=64M of=/dev/sdb > > I would like way to copy it such that: > 1. a legacy BIOS could launch it > 2. Gparted would not complain about block size > 3. there would be at least two partitions usable m

Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive

2022-03-06 Thread Richard Owlett
Currently I use dd if=netinst.iso bs=64M of=/dev/sdb I would like way to copy it such that: 1. a legacy BIOS could launch it 2. Gparted would not complain about block size 3. there would be at least two partitions usable misc files TIA

Re: 回覆: Debian boot entry won't generated after flash BIOS.

2021-10-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi all! On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 11:44:43AM +0200, Daniel Lange wrote: >Hi Alvin, > >thank you very much for reaching out to Debian with this issue. > >Am 07.10.21 um 11:18 schrieb Alvin Huang: >> Beside the generate boot entry by manual. Does Debian will generate theboot >> entry automatic when th

回覆: 回覆: Debian boot entry won't generated after flash BIOS.

2021-10-07 Thread Alvin Huang
-proj...@lists.debian.org; May Tseng; Jasmine Kang; debian-user@lists.debian.org; Steve McIntyre 主旨: Re: 回覆: Debian boot entry won't generated after flash BIOS. Hi Alvin, thank you very much for reaching out to Debian with this issue. Am 07.10.21 um 11:18 schrieb Alvin Huang: > Beside the

Re: 回覆: Debian boot entry won't generated after flash BIOS.

2021-10-07 Thread Daniel Lange
Hi Alvin, thank you very much for reaching out to Debian with this issue. Am 07.10.21 um 11:18 schrieb Alvin Huang: Beside the generate boot entry by manual. Does Debian will generate the boot entry automatic when the original boot entry disappeared? Because I’m confused the problem is cause b

回覆: Debian boot entry won't generated after flash BIOS.

2021-10-07 Thread Alvin Huang
...@debian.org] 寄件日期: Thursday, October 7, 2021 4:51 PM 收件者: Alvin Huang 副本: debian-proj...@lists.debian.org; May Tseng; Jasmine Kang; debian-user@lists.debian.org 主旨: Re: Debian boot entry won't generated after flash BIOS. Hi, Alvin Huang (2021-10-07): > I've the questions need

Re: Debian boot entry won't generated after flash BIOS.

2021-10-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Alvin Huang (2021-10-07): > I've the questions need your help. We found the boot entry will > disappeared after BIOS flash and it cause we can't boot into Debian > system by itself, we need boot into Debian through the UEFI Shell boot > file. > Does the boot entr

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-10-01 Thread Marco Möller
: SAMSUNG Flash Drive Fit, 128 GB, USB 3.1 Vendor ID 0x90c (Silicon Motion, Inc. - Taiwan (formerly Feiya Technology Corp.)) Product ID 0x1000 (Flash Drive) Speed 5.000 Mbit/s, Channels 0, Max. Packet Size 9 This is the one which has only "the small 128 GB" availabe for me. I befor

Re: USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive]

2021-10-01 Thread tomas
On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 07:22:22AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > One more lesson applies to usb memory sticks. All of the guts visit China > before going into the cases with those trademarks on them. Definitely. Tell me where else to find high-skilled cheap labour and good tech infrastructure. A

Re: USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive]

2021-10-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
One more lesson applies to usb memory sticks. All of the guts visit China before going into the cases with those trademarks on them. On Fri, 1 Oct 2021, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 10/1/21, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > I take two lessons out of it: > > > > (1) quality of those things scatt

Re: USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive]

2021-10-01 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 10/1/21, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > I take two lessons out of it: > > (1) quality of those things scatters widely. Do take Marco's > advise seriously and have always a Plan B. In my case, it's > Just A Backup (TM), so I make it so my main disk doesnt > fail until I find a replacement stick ;-@

USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive]

2021-09-30 Thread tomas
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 10:13:48PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: [...] > What I suggest you to consider: > (1) Although never having had trouble myself, for being prepared for > a USB hardware failure, which others are warning of [...] Not my main file system just the backups, but this is a very im

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-30 Thread Anssi Saari
Nate Bargmann writes: > That leads me to think that discard could be problematic on some > devices. Does a USB flash drive fall into that category? "USB flash drive" is a little generic. Bottom of the barrel in quality and price are memory sticks like the Sandisk Ultra Fit me

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, at 6:02 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2021 30 Sep 15:15 -0500, Marco Möller wrote: >> SUMMARY: >> I never observed problems with ext4 on my since 4 years heavily used USB >> pen-drive. >> >> Good Luck! >> Marco > > Thanks Marco! > > That is a very useful review of your expe

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2021 30 Sep 15:15 -0500, Marco Möller wrote: > SUMMARY: > I never observed problems with ext4 on my since 4 years heavily used USB > pen-drive. > > Good Luck! > Marco Thanks Marco! That is a very useful review of your experience. Your taking the time to write it up is greatly appreciated.

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-30 Thread Marco Möller
mostly) and since swapping the NVME is not trivial, I've opted to install Bullseye to a USB flash drive. A test run with KDE Plasma shows that performance is acceptable even with EXT4 as the file system. I now have some SanDisk Ultra Fit flash drives arriving in 128GB capacity (overkill, oh

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-30 Thread Reco
ith EXT4 as the file system. I now have some SanDisk Ultra Fit flash > > > drives arriving in 128GB capacity (overkill, oh well). I am now > > > considering what file system would be proper to use in this case. > > > > A plain ext4 with the 'discard&#

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2021 29 Sep 09:47 -0500, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 07:59:50AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > A test run with KDE Plasma shows that performance is acceptable even > > with EXT4 as the file system. I now have some SanDisk Ultra Fit flash > &g

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2021 29 Sep 16:40 -0500, David Christensen wrote: > I have several SanDisk UltraFit USB 3.0 Flash Drive 16 GB, and have > installed Debian onto them using btrfs and ext4. Both filesystems work. > btrfs requires periodic re-balancing, which is time consuming. A few years back I b

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2021 29 Sep 12:50 -0500, Brian wrote: > On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 11:34:22 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > Thanks, Reco. That is useful to me. > > Your question and Reco's response were also useful to me, if only > because I had not come across F2FS previously. On a USB device I > use ext44 w

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-29 Thread David Christensen
mostly) and since swapping the NVME is not trivial, I've opted to install Bullseye to a USB flash drive. A test run with KDE Plasma shows that performance is acceptable even with EXT4 as the file system. I now have some SanDisk Ultra Fit flash drives arriving in 128GB capacity (overkill, oh well

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-29 Thread Brian
On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 11:34:22 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Thanks, Reco. That is useful to me. Your question and Reco's response were also useful to me, if only because I had not come across F2FS previously. On a USB device I use ext44 without any noticable problems. -- Brian.

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
Thanks, Reco. That is useful to me. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 signature.a

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-29 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 07:59:50AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > A test run with KDE Plasma shows that performance is acceptable even > with EXT4 as the file system. I now have some SanDisk Ultra Fit flash > drives arriving in 128GB capacity (overkill, oh well).

"Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
trivial, I've opted to install Bullseye to a USB flash drive. A test run with KDE Plasma shows that performance is acceptable even with EXT4 as the file system. I now have some SanDisk Ultra Fit flash drives arriving in 128GB capacity (overkill, oh well). I am now considering what file system

Re: Install Debian 10 amd64 onto USB flash drive with and for Macintosh

2021-09-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 02 sep 21, 22:29:34, David Christensen wrote: > > The contents of the SSD ESP filesystem are not ideal and I still do not > understand how the MacBook Pro firmware finds and/or chooses between boot > loaders. From my limited understanding of EFI the stick should have its own ESP with grub

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